Thank's P-C.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
sumi - Oct 28, 2014 12:13:53 pm PDT #22792 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Atropa - Oct 28, 2014 12:27:11 pm PDT #22793 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Jilli - what is the book that you are denying yourself?
Prince Lestat, the Brand! New! Anne Rice Novel! Which is supposed to be set immediately after Queen of the Damned, which means none of the body-switching, Lestat goes to Heaven/Hell/trips balls nonsense! Just ... Lestat having been a rock star, being kidnapped and fed super-powerful ancient blood, and nearly helping to destroy most of civilization?
Look, I know they're lurid and cracky books. But, Lestat! My one true charming monster woobie!
sumi - Oct 28, 2014 12:31:05 pm PDT #22794 of 28343
Art Crawl!!!
Ah.
I should have guessed - but I quit the Anne Rice habit some time ago.
Rayne - Oct 28, 2014 1:08:43 pm PDT #22795 of 28343
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Then again, sumi, The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear are always worth a re-read!
Consuela - Oct 28, 2014 5:17:19 pm PDT #22796 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have the new Ancillary novel on my Kindle, but I can't read it until I finish reading So Big by Edna Ferber. Which is really good!
Consuela - Oct 28, 2014 5:17:19 pm PDT #22797 of 28343
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I have the new Ancillary novel on my Kindle, but I can't read it until I finish reading So Big by Edna Ferber. Which is really good!
Jessica - Oct 28, 2014 5:41:49 pm PDT #22798 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ancillary Sword is really really good. I thought Justice lost its way a bit in the final chapter, but this one picks up those plot threads and just runs away with them in a really fun way.
Steph L. - Oct 28, 2014 6:28:01 pm PDT #22799 of 28343
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Which is supposed to be set immediately after Queen of the Damned, which means none of the body-switching, Lestat goes to Heaven/Hell/trips balls nonsense! Just ... Lestat having been a rock star, being kidnapped and fed super-powerful ancient blood, and nearly helping to destroy most of civilization?
Oh. Oh! Really? I want to read that!
t edit Cool. I'm 206 on the list, with 130 copies. That's not bad. But maybe I should check the ebook list, too. t edit again Okay, added to that list, too. I'm 17 on the list, with 4 copies. I'm curious to see which one turns up first.
meara - Oct 28, 2014 6:33:35 pm PDT #22800 of 28343
Ooh. I've been holding out but I should buy Ancillary Sword.
There are so few things that are legal and available and relaxing, without costing tons or causing a hangover. Books are what I got.
Atropa - Oct 28, 2014 10:00:59 pm PDT #22801 of 28343
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I'm about halfway through Prince Lestat and am enthralled. It's lurid and overblown, but it's also got a thread of self-aware gentle mockery, and it seems to be a return to the sort of epic potboiler supernatural plots and schemes plots. If it doesn't go spectacularly off the rails in the last half, it'll be a worthy successor to the first three.
Oh, and it's not set right after QotD, but there's been NO mention of the misguided Mayfair Witches cross-over nonsense from Blackwood Farm or Blood Canticle.